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Offloading your Informix data in Spark, Part 5: Machine Learning will help you extrapolate future orders

Part 5 of this tutorial series teaches you how to add machine learning to your data to help you extrapolate future orders.




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A cryptographic approach to protecting passwords in the cloud

In this article, back-end developers learn why it is important to use encryption and how to use it effectively to protect user information on the cloud, especially passwords, so that even a data leak can't be cracked in less than decades. Security is an ever important topic in the cloud that is crucial to full-stack development and is essential on all products and services.




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Use management APIs and Jenkins as a continuous integration engine for IBM App Connect Professional deployment automation

Check out deployment automation on IBM App Connect (formerly known as WebSphere Cast Iron) by using IBM App Connect Management APIs, the SoapUI client, and Jenkins.




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Unleash the value of Guardium data by using the Guardium Big Data Intelligence solution

Organizations that use IBM Security Guardium activity monitoring for data security and compliance struggle with the quantity of collected audit data, especially if they have 10 or more Guardium collectors. IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence provides the power of a big data platform that is purpose-built for data security requirements. It helps augment existing Guardium deployments with the ability to quickly create an optimized security data lake that can retain large quantities of historical data over long time horizons.




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Getting started with the IBM Cloud, Part 2: Build an advanced Cloud Foundry app on the IBM Cloud platform

See how to develop and deploy advanced Cloud Foundry applications in the IBM Cloud. Doug Tidwell shows you how to create a globally available app that uses a cloud-hosted NoSQL database.




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Scale single sign-on with App ID for your Node.js cloud apps

In this tutorial, you will learn about implementing scalable Node.js applications when you are using the App ID service. This IBM Cloud service allows you to add authentication to your mobile and web apps and protect your APIs and back-ends running on IBM Cloud. App ID provides authentication with email/password through a scalable user registry or you can add social login, so that users can sign in with their Facebook or Google credentials. With App ID, you can also host user profile info that you can use to build engaging experiences.




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Build a connected-car IoT app with Geospatial Analytics

Deploy and extend an Internet of Things (IoT) Connected Vehicle starter kit on IBM Cloud with the Internet of Things Platform and Geospatial services. The starter kit enables you to simulate, view, and manage vehicles driving through a city and set up geofences for notification.



  • Internet of Things
  • cloud

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Analyzing the contextual content of hierarchical data by using IBM Watson Explorer

This tutorial demonstrates how to implement a custom crawler plug-in with IBM Watson Explorer to analyze a hierarchical data structure within the context of content analytics. The strategy outlined here permits the retaining of the hierarchical structure or grains of the model being analyzed.




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IBM RFE Community, Release 22

Find out what's new in the RFE Community. With Release 22, the RFE Community provides new features that keep you up to date on the requests you're watching and are interested in.




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On demand data in Python, Part 1: Python iterators and generators

The oldest known way to process data in Python is building up data in lists, dictionaries and other such data structures. Though such techniques work well in many cases, they cause major problems when dealing with large quantities of data. It's easy to find that your code is running painfully slowly or running out of memory. Generators and iterators help address this problem. These techniques have been around in Python for a while but are not well understood. Used properly, they can bring big data tasks down to size so that they don't require a huge hardware investment to complete.




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On demand data in Python, Part 2: The magic of itertools

Python's motto has always been "Batteries included," to highlight its extensive standard library. There are many well-kept secrets among the standard modules, including itertools, which is less well known in part because iterators and generators are less well known. This is a shame because the routines in itertools and related modules such as functools and operators can save developers many hours in developing big data operators. Learn by copious examples how to use itertools to address the most common MapReduce-style data science tasks.




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ISV solution ecosystem for Hortonworks on IBM Power Systems

This article provides a list of ISV solutions that can augment the capabilities of Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) running on Linux on IBM Power Systems. Solutions cover many categories including business intelligence (BI) tools, advanced analytics, and so on.




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Hosted VMware environments and recovery solutions in IBM PureApplication Platform, Part 2: Setting up a PureApplication Software workload environment

With the release of IBM Bluemix Local System and PureApplication System firmware V2.2.3, you can create automatically configured hosted VMware environments for more flexibility on how you run and manage your workloads. This tutorial series provides a step-by-step guide for users of the Bluemix Local System W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 2, you install and configure a PureApplication Software workload environment.




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Hosted VMware environments and recovery solutions in IBM PureApplication Platform, Part 1: Getting started with hosted VMware environments

With the release of IBM Bluemix Local System and PureApplication System firmware V2.2.3, you can create automatically configured hosted VMware environments for more flexibility on how you run and manage your workloads. This series of articles provides a step-by-step guide for users of the W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 1, you get started with creating and deploying hosted VMware environments in Bluemix Local System. Specifically, you learn how to allocate resources, configure external access to VMware components, and configure and deploy virtual machines in VMware.




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Hosted VMware environments and recovery solutions in IBM PureApplication Platform, Part 3: Building a disaster recovery solution with PureApplication Software

With the release of IBM PureApplication Platform and PureApplication System firmware V2.2.3, you can create automatically configured hosted VMware environments for more flexibility on how you run and manage your workloads. This series of articles provides a step-by-step guide for users of the PureApplication Platform W1500, W2500, W3500, and W3550 models to work with these advanced capabilities. In Part 3, you set up disaster recovery and learn how to perform three different disaster recovery procedures.




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IBM RFE Community, Release 23

Find out what's new in the RFE Community. With Release 23, the RFE Community provides new features that keep you up to date on the requests you're watching and are interested in.




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Roy from Vegas duo Siegfried and Roy dies

Magician Roy Horn, who was one half of the German duo "Siegfried & Roy," has died after contracting Covid-19, his spokesman says.




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Take care with mum on Mother’s Day

Australians are being warned to take care when visiting their mums on Mother's Day, particularly if they are elderly.




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Cyclist injured in stolen Mercedes hit-run

A driver who smashed into a female cyclist, injuring her badly, then drove off should hand himself in, police say.




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Shopping crowds raise SA virus complacency

Thousands of people have flocked to shopping malls and supermarkets across Adelaide, raising concerns of growing complacency over the coronavirus pandemic.




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UK to quarantine travellers for 14 days

The British government has told airlines it will introduce a 14-day quarantine period for most people arriving from abroad to try to avoid a second peak of the coronavirus pandemic, an association representing the airlines said on Saturday.




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Nintendo profit jump as people stay home

Japanese video-game maker Nintendo Co. has scored a 33 per cent jump in annual profit, as people stuck at home turn to playing games amid the coronavirus pandemic.




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AMP shareholders furious over exec pay

AMP shareholders, denied dividends for 2019, have served a first `strike' on the hefty pay packets of the beleaguered financial giant's executives.




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JC Penney to file for bankruptcy: sources

JC Penney Co Inc is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as next week with plans to permanently close about a quarter of its roughly 850 stores, becoming the latest major US retailer to succumb to fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, according to people familiar with the matter.




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US unemployment rate skyrockets to 14.7%

The coronavirus crisis has sent US unemployment surging to 14.7 per cent, a level last seen when the country was in the throes of the Depression and President Franklin D. Roosevelt was assuring Americans that the only thing to fear was fear itself.




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Confusion as cafes reopen illegally

Aussies are finally looking forward to a return to normality after Prime Minister Scott Morrison unveiled a three-step plan to a COVIDSafe Australia yesterday afternoon.




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Why JobKeeper could wrap up early

The federal government’s wage subsidy scheme may be wound back before its promised six month life span.




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Aussies most screwed by pandemic

Hoping your boss quits to play golf and you get their job? Not going to happen. Promotions at work will be few and far between for millennials as older workers refuse to vacate their positions, gumming up the job market.




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Why it’s time to ditch how we measure employment

Somewhere between 9.5 per cent and 44 per cent of the entire workforce is now really jobless as a result of the government-mandated lockdowns of the economy.




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Sydney Zoo celebrates the birth of three baby baboons

Mother's Day at Sydney Zoo will be three times as special this year as the park celebrates the birth of three brand new baby baboons.




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PM’s right-hand-man foils Barra’s by-election hopes

Nationals leader John Barilaro could have had a clear run in Eden-Monaro, with senior Liberals working on a deal to not put up a candidate in exchange for an unopposed run elsewhere.




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Three times the pressure for PM this Mother’s Day

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has a big task today — to make Mother’s Day special for three mums in lockdown at The Lodge.




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Isolation rules will be eased in NSW on Friday

NSW residents and businesses will finally have some relief, with harsh coronavirus restrictions easing from Friday to “fire up the economy”.




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Baboon baby boom is a triple treat for zoo

Mother’s Day at Sydney Zoo will be three times as special this year as the park celebrates the births of a trio of ­little girls.




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Cheap beer and long lunches to revive economy

Cheaper beer and the return of the long lunch is on the menu as the hospitality sector tries to revive restaurants, pubs and cafes on the other side of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Harry Potter star ‘wanted PM to die’

Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes left British viewers shocked as she unleashed a vile rant saying she “wanted Boris Johnson to die” from the coronavirus.




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NZ considers opening economy after 90 percent of COVID-19 cases recover

The New Zealand Cabinet will meet on Monday to decide whether restrictions can be eased allowing domestic travel to restart and most businesses to open. There have been four new recorded infections in the past five days, and 90 percent of approximately 1500 confirmed or probable cases, have recovered from the virus. As the New Zealand and Australian economies reopen, a Trans-Tasman travel bubble could emerge as a serious possibility, if both nations continue to effectively flatten their coronavirus curves. Image: Associated Press




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President Trump commemorates VE Day

President Donald Trump has joined World War Two veterans at a wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two in Europe. President Trump and First Lady Melania paid their respects at a memorial in Washington.




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Wild claims from virus conspiracy film

There’s been plenty of conspiracy theories to come out of the coronavirus pandemic.




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Warning over Mother’s Day cuddles

Australians are being warned to take care when visiting their mums today, particularly if they are elderly.




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Amazing story of baby born with rare birth defect

HELPLESSLY watching her newborn son Colton fight for his life just hours after she nearly died in childbirth is something mother-of-three Kaila Stace will never forget.




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Perfectly positioned by the Bay

BUILT in 1962 and nestled in a blue-ribbon locale, this big, brick Sandy Bay home is just a walk from anything a family might need.




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‘I never thought it would be a reality for me’

When Abbey was a little girl, sunshine flooded her soul when she kicked a ball with her brother, pivoted on a netball court, watched her sporting idols on TV and read novels for hours on end.




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Overnight Spring Snowstorm Blankets Northern New Jersey

A spring snowstorm overnight on May 8 into May 9 blanketed northern New Jersey with cold and snow, weather reports said. Parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware were also affected by the storm. The National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office recorded temperatures in the low 30s, some going below freezing into the mid-to-high 20s across the northeast. A local resident in Newton, New Jersey, filmed video of the storm blowing snow across their backyard. In the morning, the yard and garden were covered. “Snow on the ground with a pool open seems odd,” J&B Landscape wrote on one video. On another they wrote, “Nice winter morning in May.” Credit: J&B Landscape via Storyful




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Polar Vortex Brings Snow, Wintry Conditions to New England

A polar vortex brought rare winter weather conditions to the Northeast of the US on May 9, with freezing temperatures and snow reported across parts of New England, including Vermont. Up to 9 inches of snow was recorded in parts of Vermont with freeze or frost advisories reported in 20 states across the Midwest and Northeast. Video filmed by Mitch @VermonsterWx shows several inches of “light and fluffy” snow accumulation near Readsboro, Vermont. Credit: Mitch @VermonsterWx via Storyful




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Banks trying to lock up your loan

It seems that banks and other lenders are doing their best to lock in our mortgages.




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Mum’s genius grocery hack saves $173

With many Australian families feeling the pinch at the moment, one Aussie mum has revealed her simple trick for creating multiple dinners using one key ingredient.




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7 ways to boost your career from home

What a difference a pandemic makes. A few months ago, the only thing standing between you and your career goals was how hard you were willing to hustle. But as you adapt to indefinite lockdown life, the hustle may now be feeling all too real.




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Sarah Roberts’ Mother’s Day grief: ‘I had two miscarriages’

Motherhood, for now, looks vastly different for Sarah Roberts than she expected it to – but nonetheless, the actor wants to speak candidly about the heartbreak she and husband James Stewart endured after she suffered two miscarriages in the past year.




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Sexy tie dye trend that’s selling out

From tie dye trackies to oversized sweaters, Australian shoppers are buying into the activewear trend in a big way during isolation.